"The Witch in the Stone Boat" ( 'the giantess in the stone boat') is an Icelandic folktale, originally collected by Jón Árnason (1864), translated into English in Andrew Lang's fairy tale collection The Yellow Fairy Book (1894). The antagonist is a giantess (skessa; elsewhere called troll-woman, and revealed to be the sister of a three-headed giant), though rendered as "witch" by Lang, who shape-shifts and assumes the place of a queen, while having the true queen imprisoned. It has been categorized as a subtype of ATU 462, "The Outcast Queens and the Ogress Queen". Textual notes "Skessan á steinnökkvanum" (literally 'The [giantess] in the stone boat'), was a selection in Jón Árnason's folktale/fairy tale collection, Íslenzkar Þjóðsögur og Æfintýri Vol. 2 (1862–64). It was later translated into German as "Die Riesin in dem Steinboote" ('The giantess in the stone-boat') by in Isländische Märchen (1884), a known source of Icelandic tales for Andrew Lang. Andrew Lang's English translation "The Witch in the Stone Boat" appeared in the Yellow Fairy Book, whose first edition was published in 1894. Other German translations are Adeline Rittershaus's "Die Riesin im Steinboot" (1902), and the similarly title rendering by Hans Naumann and Ida Naumann (1923). The tale was translated into English with the title The Troll in the Stone-Craft, in the English version of Jón Árnason's Icelandic Legends: Second series, and in a later publication as The Giantess and the Granite Boat. Tale type This folktale is considered to be a version of Aarne-Thompson-Uther type 462 "The Outcast Queens and the Ogress Queen", and is cognate with the Italian tale "The Dragon" (Pentamerone IV. 5). A second variant of the tale, according to the type description, is The Son of Seven Queens, an Indian fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs. In it, a king who was married to seven co-wives follows a white hind during a hunt. Hot on its trail, the king tracks the hind to a hut in the woods, where an old witch lives. Soon after, he meets a woman of immense beauty who he realises is the transformed white hind. As a first request, the supernatural woman orders the king to get rid of his former wives in order to replace the outcast queens. Another variant is The Demon is at last conquered by the King's Son, collected by Maive Stokes, in Indian Fairy Tales (1880). Variants of the tale type are